The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-01-01
PALATKA, FLA, JAN. 1, 1887.
1887.

The dawn of q new day IS like the
birth of a new existence; the beginning
of "A new year should bring us the incen-
tive of new hope for the future, a new
strength to carry the old burdens and
new determination to allow no disap-
pointment in the past to cloud the sun
light of the present. Our loves and
hates go with us; our Maker has denied
to US the possibility of forgetting the
noble emotions born of the soul as the
satisfied body loses the recollection of
past hunger. But our struggles need not
discourage us-our disappointments need
not embitter the love we brought with
us from the presence of God as the sole
reminder of lost Eden-the falsehOod
of one should make dearer the truth Of
the many. Our own sins should make
us tender of the faults of another; the
beam in our own eye should hide from
us the mote in that of our brother-if
we hang the murderer it is but to bury
his crime and hide the wreck Of life
once capable of possibilities high as the
depth of his fall.
In Florida, for the coming year, there
is room for every energy, place for
every strong heart-work for hand and
brain. Does honest work sometimes
lack adequate reward? He who works
for success alone is no true artist-the
work IN itself should be valuable-the
pride of the creator in the work Of his
own hand or brain or loving heart is "a
spark fIom the fire of Gods own exult-
ant Joy as the universe grew INTO form
at his bidding-it is a mark of the souls
kinship with the holiness from which it
came. Among the chosen people of
God who lived after Sol mon, it was a
matter of pride to claim descent from
those who hewed stone or carried mortar
for the building of the temple; was it
ever a matter of pride that ones father
was made rich by drawing wages from
the sacred treasury while stone grew into
place and cedar beams were reared Oh
high to prepare tabernacle for the
Most Holy?
Would not the proudest among the
proudest people of the world have been
bthi piouuCi COuIu udSc Soh-
tributed acceptably to the building of
the house within which the glory from
Heaven daily restedr Yet each of us is
allowed to do SO in this latter day, and
even the bungling work Of the most awk
ward, if prompted by pure motive and
honest heart, is always accepted and
finds proper place. Do we teach or
strengthen our fellows? We are taking
part in the conservation Of \ temple
chosen by the Lord in Heaven for his
residence when he deserted that bulded
by Solomon. Do we uplift the desI airing
or cast out temptation? We are driving
out the devils of darkness even as Christ
expelled the money changers from the
halls consecrated by the visible presence
of His Father. How can the least of III
want work when there is need of la
borers in the great vineyard where souls
are grown? How can one of us feel in
significant where each may be master
workman in the erection of a grandei
temple than ever graced Ephesus or Je-
rusalem? How can we despair wher
work is before us, Heaven above and the
earth only under our feet? When WE
have conquered the land and the sea
and measured the depths of space there
will yet remain to us love of our fellows
and conquest over ourselves.
And among all our blessings let us moi
forget the permission to work. Wher
we left Paradise love came with us, bu
God gave us only work to console us fo
alt left behind. 1t alone satisfies neeC
of our nature so intense that yearninf
drives us mad when it cannot be graf
flied. Does man have no need to worl
for bread? Then he makes business O
pleasure or wickedness or philanthropy
as the case may be. We need work an,
the world is full of it-there is room
here, alas! for sin, but none for idleness
Get work. get work!
BE sure tits better than what you work T.
get"